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Someone sent me a link to a file through Limewire today. That had its heyday so long ago that I think this is actually the first time I've ever used it.
afaik limewire rn is not what it was before, someone just bought the old branding
We all know what happened to Napster, but I wonder what happened to the KaZaA and Morpheus and the other non-FOSS P2P networks
Shareaza is still around. Not in active development but you can still download it.
Gnutella was not GNU???
That's like saying "The Pirate Bay is still around!" or "MySpace is still around!" or "Napster is still around!"
They're all shallow shells of their former selves. The Pirate Bay is just a symbolism of piracy, it has long lost its usage since the original founders left. MySpace really shot themselves in the foot with that accidental data purge a time ago and they can't decide for themselves what they want to be considering the history of how they've been treated as a hot potato of ownership.
And Napster has long been converted into a service to pay into or subscribe to. People preferred it as the place where we got our music for free.
I get all my content from TPB. It's regularly updated, it's free, and it's good enough for 1080p.
???
It's still my primary source for pirated shit, and works fine. I'll only go elsewhere when I can't find what I'm looking for there ... which is pretty rare.
I like it because it’s single click. I have a plugin that connects with qbit in my server, so I click one button and it goes in my server. 1337x etc takes two clicks and I just don’t have time for that! I’m very very busy doing……. Nothing.